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The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The building became a National Historic Landmark in 1994 and is a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District. It is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County and is open for visitation on a year-round basis.
The mansion was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family, in an architectural style based on the Italian Renaissance. It was designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr. The 70-room mansion has a gross area of 125,339 square feet (11,644.4 m2) and 62,482 square feet (5,804.8 m2) of living area on five floors, constructed between 1893 and 1895. The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates, and the 30-foot-high (9.1 m) walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high (3.7 m) limestone-and-iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The footprint of the house covers approximately 1 acre (4,000 m2) of the 14 acres (5.7 ha) estate on the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. (Wikipedia)
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I really liked the contrast from the harsh sunlight in this one.
Not done many long exposures so a lot more practice is needed, comments and advice are more then welcome
Towering over the local landscape the Locust Summit breaker of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron Company stands silent. The breaker, built in 1930, was capable of processing 15000 tons in a 24-hour period, and operated for a quarter century before being permanently shut down. The breaker stood for another 47 years until it was demolished in 2002. The complex housed many treasures, including CNJ 0-6-0 113, which worked at the facility from 1953 through 1960, and languished at Locust Summit for another 20 years before being moved to the Wilmington & Western.
Here the breaker is largely intact in 1992. The large shed to the right of the breaker houses dual rotary car dumpers. Why would a facility that loads outbound coal for shipment to customers need rotary car dumpers? The answer lies in the function of an anthracite breaker as a processing plant, and not necessarily as a part of a specific mine. The breaker separated rock from coal, and then sorted the coal into various sizes for shipment to market. The Reading delivered mine-run coal from various mines in the region, and then hauled an equivalent amount of finished product away from the breaker. This is one of only a few on-line industries that received and shipped the same commodity.
The sea running right up to the cliff base at High Tide yesterday. Fair old sea on with the SE wind.
6sec Exposure.
Taken by my hubbie Eddie B, I love this. You can almost feel the spray on Newborough Beach, Isle of Anglesey.
Another shot from Swine Den looking up the coast at Cullernose point as i get a bit to close to the water and the inevitable soaking that follows :)
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Got in the water but not too far.
Lots of tidal pools here to get wet in.
Seen at a cool beach near the National Energy Lab - North Kona Coast, Big Island of Hawaii.
Rocky point at Laupahoehoe Point Beach Park on the Big Island’s Hamakua Coast (east shore) - Hawaii.
Laupahoehoe is 25 miles north of Hilo and 31 miles south of Waimea off of Hwy 19 (source - frommers travel guide).
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Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness is also the name of the power station and a few other nearby buildings near the beach, and of an important ecological site at the same location.
Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world[citation needed]. And is classified as Britain's only desert by the met office. It is of international conservation importance for its geomorphology, plant and invertebrate communities and birdlife. This is recognised and protected mostly through its conservation designations as a National Nature Reserve (NNR), a Special Protection Area (SPA), a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) of Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay.
There is a remarkable variety of wildlife living at Dungeness, with over 600 different types of plant: a third of all those found in Britain. It is one of the best places in Britain to find insects such as moths, bees and beetles, and spiders; many of these are very rare, some found nowhere else in Britain.
The short-haired bumblebee, Bombus subterraneus, was last found in the UK in 1988, but has survived in New Zealand after being shipped there more than 100 years ago. After unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce the New Zealand bees at Dungeness in 2009-2010, the RSPB teamed up with the Swedish government in a second attempt and introduced 51 of them in 2012 and 49 in 2013 to the Dungeness Reserve. This will be continued each year, with RSPB staff conducting analysis of breeding to ensure a successful integration.[1]
The flooded gravel pits on Denge Beach, both brackish and fresh water, provide an important refuge for many migratory and coastal bird species. The RSPB has a bird sanctuary there and every year thousands of bird watchers descend on the peninsula to catch a glimpse of a rare bird from the bird observatory.
One of the most remarkable features of the site is an area known as 'the patch' or, by anglers, as 'the boil'. The waste hot water and sewage from the Dungeness nuclear power stations are pumped into the sea through two outfall pipes, enriching the biological productivity of the sea bed and attracting seabirds from miles around.
Beach fishing is popular at Dungeness, with the area being a nationally recognised cod fishing venue in the winter.
Row of wooden breakers near Hutan Melintang Port, Perak, Malaysia.
One of the point of entry to Malaysia from Indonesia.
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